The things that are deemed acceptable and not acceptable during the pursuit Fauna boreali-americana, or, The zoology of the northern parts of British America :.London :John Murray,1829-1837. Even speaking as someone who likes to go on and on about the potential speed and power of social movements,
'A lot of folks are tired of that. They’re not going to take it anymore.' March to the BPD station today This is going to be short because we decided to go to a rally and march this evening organized by Mass Action Against Police Brutality. It
When people show up, you don’t have to compromise The Zoological journal. London: W. Phillips, 1824 If you know the name Erica Chenoweth, it’s probably in relation to the Harvard professor’s widely cited “3.5% rule,” which poses that no government can withstand a challenge from 3.
People buying stuff near constantly and when they stop for even a few weeks things start to crumble Still Life with a Golden Goblet, Pieter de Ring, 1635-1650 It really struck me just how fragile capitalism is, in this particular go round of economic meltdown at least, when the
Living on the brink of oil stained societal collapse, everything going wrong in 20 different directions Christopher Wood, Zebra and Parachute, 1930, © Tate, CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 I’m going to write about William Gibson today, for the second time in this newsletter, because while he is best
Listening to the hull of the ship groaning and creaking under the pressure outside HMS Erebus and Terror in the Antarctic by John Wilson Carmichael (before the fatal Franklin expedition) Last week I was wondering whether we might be learning to live a smaller, slower way of life during all
In an effort to expand our reach across the planet, we have cornered ourselves Vanitas still life with a globe, sceptre, a skull crowned with straw, Hendrick Andriessen, c. 1650 One of the big ideas echoing around the world right now, because we live in this weird time when everyone
Things are breaking too easily, and in all the most predictable ways Vanitas Still Life, n.d., Herman Henstenburgh As the scope of the pandemic was becoming clear, Shamar Bibbins, a senior program officer at climate funder the Kresge Foundation, was on a call with a public health nonprofit they
It’s been hard to force both catastrophic threats to live inside my skull at the same time Vanitas Still Life, Pieter Claesz, 1625 Not very long ago, like pretty much everyone, I was living in a world in which Covid-19 was not my problem, and then all of
It's dumb and I don't want to learn anything from this Dreaming of Walking near Fuji, Isoda Koryusai, 1770-73 I have this running note where I jot down ideas for this thing during the week and I looked at it today and it is basically
'Epidemics have a way of revealing underlying truths about the societies they impact' The Fall of the Cowboy, Frederic Remington, 1895 This phrase has been rattling around in my head while sitting inside my own little box surrounded by all the other boxes of other people, all of
This fantasyland daze we walk around in, pretending all of our fates are not connected The Threatened Swan, Jan Asselijn, 1650 Hello from Crisis Palace where we are healthy and safe, working from the palace, and responsibly limiting human contact. I have found that Covid-19 has turned me into